Meteorological calculations for the study:
Humanitarian Need Drives Multilateral Disaster Aid
Lisa Maria Dellmuth (corr-auth), Frida A.-M. Bender, Aiden Robert Jönsson, Elisabeth Lio Rosvold, Nina von Uexkull
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This document prepared by: Aiden Robert Jönsson
Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, 2020

### METEOROLOGICAL DATA RETRIEVAL ###

The files for retrieval of ERA-Interim data are included in this directory. Also included is a basic script used to calculate the daily percentile ranking of any meteorological variable in the files "calc_pctl.sh" and "calc_pctl.py", which is used to calculate the hazard severity index. Note: these files are converted to 32-bit floats for computational expedience.

The ERA-Interim data can also be accessed here:
https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/reanalysis-datasets/era-interim
